The Allied Truck Transport Association of Nigeria (ATTAN), Badagry zone, has decried alleged attack on its members by the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria (RTEAN) and the National Union of Road and Transport Workers (NURTW) in Badagry, Lagos.
The Chairman, Mr. Kolawole Onifade, alleged that members of the two unions had been preventing his members from performing their duties on Badagry roads.
He alleged: “Recently, I was on my way to Alaba to buy spare parts for my trucks when the union members attacked one of our members, telling him to collect a ticket when he had collected one before.
“When I challenged them, they beat me up and also assaulted the driver. They stole the N500,000 I was taking to the market.”
Responding, Mr. Kehinde Tajudeen, the coordinator, RTEAN and NURTW, said the tippers association was established to cater for the owners’ and drivers’ future.
He said Onifade had been the chairman of the unions before he brought ATTAN to Badagry and asked them to join him.
He said nobody was fighting ATTAN, but the members should come and apologise so that they would take them back.